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Everytime I change my network password, I have to reset the printer password when printing to my windows network. Needless to say, I forget the few steps it takes every time. So here’s a reminder for myself:

1. Open up the printer setup utility and click “ADD”
2. Hold down the “OPTION” key while clicking the “More printers…” button on the bottom. This is the most important step. Without clicking on the “OPTION” key the “Advanced” option in the next step doesn’t show up and the normal windows printing via network neighborhood doesn’t work for me.
3. From the top combo-box, choose the “Advanced” option.
4. Choose “Windows Printer Via SAMBA” from the device pop-up menu.
5. Enter your device name into the appropriate textbox.
6. Enter the URI to the device using the syntax “smb://ServerName/ShareName. Note that you may have to add the username and password in the urll as I did. For that, the syntax is “smb://<username>:<password>@domain/<server>/<share>”
7. Pick the printer model from the printer model pop-up menu

Of course, you’ll need the appropriate drivers, etc.

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